What is the purpose of life?

An eternal question, what is the purpose of life?, occupied philosophers’ thoughts throughout history. Stone pictographs reveal even primitive peoples reflected on this query. Each one has the capacity to define his or her personal thinking about politics, economics and religion.

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You did, Joan Denoo, and the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali once inspired me. The kleshas make sense even if you do not believe in a deity (though of course a Hindu would find this unpardonable). Ignorant is what I call most politicians; egotists come in all colors and stripes; attachment plagues those in a capitalist society: we are attached to our food, our TV, &c. Aversion and clinging I always called the twin kleshas. Simply put, if you are attached to unhealthy foods, you better not count on clinging.

@Tom. I think so. I went through a phase in my occult years of devotion to the principles of the Hindu and Buddhist tantrics, although my version of sadhana was a lot more complicated. I loved the sayings of tantric sages. For example, and I have substituted my own substances for western simplicity: "There is no difference between a palm's worth of chocolate and a palm's worth of shit." (Maybe William S. Burroughs had this in mind when, in one of his routines, he had the wealthiest family in America -- say, the Waltons -- taking their new son into the family board room. Or maybe it's that hobby store. And the president, probably his grandfather, takes into the board room shitter and says, sit there until you dump, money's not worth the shit from your body.) I cannot imagine why any human needs a billion dollars unless it is to feed his kleshas.